Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Longframlington is over 55.5
With households in flats at 1.3%, Longframlington is behind 99% of UK towns on that count. The village is home to 1,357 residents in 616 households, by the 2021 Census. Adults who have never married: a fifth of the total. At 54%, the share of households in detached houses is higher than in 92% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Longframlington’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Longframlington’s residents are under 55.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 32% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
166 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 13% of those 5 and over: more than in 99% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of UK towns: 6.7%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 10% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. On the census count, nearly a third of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Full-time students make up 3.3% in Longframlington, less than in 97% of UK towns
What adults did at the 2021 Census (the ONS’s NS-SEC classes), and where residents lived a year earlier.
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
Address a year before the Census
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
44% of Longframlington’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Locally, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 20% of households in Longframlington have dependent children
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Northumberland’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.5% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. On average, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. A household here holds 2.2 people on average. Longframlington has fewer one-person households than nearly four fifths of UK towns, at 26%.
Only 8.9% of households in Longframlington have no car or van
Accommodation type and cars or vans per household, Census 2021. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 11% of households live in a terraced house in Longframlington.
100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% of UK towns
Country of birth, year of arrival and main language, Census 2021.
Born outside the UK, by region · share of all residents; the bar runs to 25%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Longframlington has 3.2%. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%) and in EU countries (0.7%).
98% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
How residents described themselves at the 2021 Census. Lines join the lowest and highest of the three figures.
Ethnic groups other than White British · all residents
White British, not charted: 98% of Longframlington · Northumberland’s towns 96% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, against 35% in Longframlington. On average, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The census found that nearly three in five residents describe themselves as Christian in the village.
62% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 99% of UK towns
Legal partnership status (residents 16 and over) and unpaid care (residents 5 and over), Census 2021.
Partnership status · residents 16 and over
Unpaid care given · share of residents 5 and over
Set against 8.7% across England’s towns, 13% of residents give unpaid care in Longframlington. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns. 59 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 44%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 44% of adults in Longframlington (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 12% (England’s towns: 18%).
Median age: 2 of the 7 towns around Longframlington are older
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longframlington | 1,357 | — | 55.5 | 32% | 20% |
| Felton | 1,270 | 3.5 mi | 55 | 29% | 23% |
| Rothbury | 2,025 | 4.3 mi | 57.7 | 36% | 17% |
| South Broomhill | 1,520 | 6.4 mi | 39 | 12% | 16% |
| Shilbottle | 1,787 | 6.5 mi | 46.2 | 20% | 27% |
| Warkworth | 1,412 | 7.6 mi | 63.1 | 46% | 11% |
| Hadston | 2,713 | 7.9 mi | 46.4 | 22% | 24% |
| Alnwick | 8,432 | 8.2 mi | 50.5 | 28% | 20% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Northumberland’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Northumberland (or England), summed the same way as Longframlington’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- Small counts are blurred. The ONS adds small random changes to Census counts to protect privacy, so the same total differs a little between tables, and the shares of a small town can move by a point or two.
Questions about Longframlington’s residents
What is the population of Longframlington?
The 2021 Census counted 1,357 people in Longframlington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Longframlington?
The median age was 55.5 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Longframlington?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 96% across Northumberland’s towns. 3.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Longframlington?
35% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Longframlington good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Longframlington’s schools page.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area (TS002, TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS008, TS015, TS017, TS019, TS021, TS029, TS030, TS039, TS044, TS045, TS062, TS067). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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